Sen. Lisa Murkowski discusses her dissatisfaction with the choices in the upcoming presidential election and her views on partisanship in Washington during a news conference in Anchorage.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke about her dissatisfaction with the choices in the upcoming presidential election and her perspective on partisanship in Washington during a news conference in Anchorage on April 4, 2024.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski weighed the choices in the upcoming presidential election during an Anchorage news conference last week. “I don’t know. Maybe I don’t vote for either one,” Murkowski told Alaska reporters Thursday. “I haven’t decided that. I don’t like the policies of one and I don’t like the character of the other.”
Murkowski, a Republican, also described a climate of partisanship in Washington that she says limits conversations and the exchange of ideas.Murkowski is one of a handful of elected Republicans who have openly opposed former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president in the 2024 election. She didn’t support himfor raising concerns about the current state of the GOP.
In the video above, watch more from a candid conversation recorded in Murkowski’s downtown Anchorage office on April 4.Iris Samuels is a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News focusing on state politics. She previously covered Montana for The AP and Report for America and wrote for the Kodiak Daily Mirror. Contact her at [email protected].
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